_ ‘Inthe line of books bearing the stamp of scientific authority, and at the same 
time adapted for popular use, this is unquestionably the best work ever issued on the 
flora of any part of the United States.”—FREDERICK V. COVILLE, U. S. Dept. of 
Agriculture, Div. of Botany, Washington, D. C. - 
“Tt will be no exaggeration to pronounce this the most valuable contribution ever 
made to American botany, so far as the area covered by Gray’s Manual—somewhat 
eutendets 6s 5. The authors deserve the thanks of every botanist for this success- 
ful ending of a great task.’”-—Weehans’. Monthly, Philadelphia. 
‘“This work should be in the library of all lovers and students of flowers; for 
while it is the most exhaustive and complete work on systemiatic botany that has been 
published in this country, it affords at the same time an easy introduction to begin- 
ners through its illustrations.’’— The Churchman, New York. 
_ “We cannot too highly commend the volume before us, and no flower-lover can 
consider his library complete without it.”— The Advance, Chicago. 
_ ‘The work should find an enthusiastic welcome in the private study, as well as 
in the college class-room.’’—Chicago Tribune. 
‘* A book of rare excellence, doing on a much enlarged scale for this country what 
is accomplished for Great Britain by Bentham’s Illustrated Flora. Besides the accu- 
tate description, we here have an authentic portrait of every North American species. 
The treatment is popular, but at the same time eminently scientific. A complete cy- 
clopaedia of American systematic botany.’-—PROFESSOR W. WHITMAN BAILEY, of 
Brown University. 
‘Since the time of Linnzus no such important book on plants has been pub- 
TiSNG dso sss What is peculiar to this work and what will give to it a value for 
the general reader that is possessed by no other, is the accompaniment of illustra- 
yoo . . . It will be adopted immediately in this country as a standard.’”’—Brooklyn 
agle. 
“ An important new scientific book. The labor bestowed on such a work as this 
throws ordinary book-making quite in the shade.”—V. Y. Herald. 
““As far as the present volume enables us to judge, we have here a tréatise 
which will exert a wide influence in inducing large numbers of persons to make 
botany within these limits a pleasant recreative study, and which will at the same 
time afford to those who are fond of systematic botany a convenient work of refer- 
“The work has finally appeared, and its friends have every reason to be proud of 
it... ... Theillustrations . . . are remarkably clear and characteristic . . . and show 
the salient features of the plants as well as any small figures can... . . This excel- 
lent work will have a most pronounced effect in stereotyping this particular system 
of nomenclature. .... It puts the student in the proper attitude toward the plant 
kingdom, and it is bound to work a genuine reform. We are confident that it isa 
great work. It has taken the latest convictions of the methods of ascent of the 
vegetable world and has worked them out fearlessly and logically.”—New York Sun. 
